Coldness filled Shen Li's eyes. Although the time was short, she didn't miss the fleeting look of regret on the guard's face just now.
Regretful that he couldn't kill her with a single strike?
Just then, Jiaoyue finally pushed through the crowd and knelt beside Shen Li. "Miss! Miss! Don't move! You're bleeding so much!"
Jiaoyue took out her handkerchief from close to her body and pressed it hard against Shen Li's wound. But unfortunately, there was too much blood, and soon the handkerchief was dyed red.
"Miss, hold on! Doctor! Where's the doctor?"
Jiaoyue had no choice but to hold back her tears and seal several important acupoints on Shen Li's body.
Jiaoyue's panicked face was right in front of her. Shen Li wanted to open her mouth to comfort her, but before she could say a word, her vision went black, and she lost consciousness.
"Miss! Miss! Wake up!" Jiaoyue was already in a complete mess. Her young mistress had just recovered from falling into the water a few days ago, and now she was injured and had lost so much blood. Moreover, she was now unconscious.
As for Shen Miao, the second young mistress, she had long since disappeared. It was likely that she was involved in the injury of the eldest young mistress today.
If she had known this would happen, she would have tried her best to stop the eldest young mistress from coming to this damned Lantern Festival.
Just when Jiaoyue was at a loss, she saw a man in white walking through the crowd. He let out a soft sigh and stepped towards them.
Murong Chu was dressed in spotless white clothes with a calm face. He stood out in the crowd. Looking at Shen Li lying unconscious in Jiaoyue's arms, he said in a cold tone, "I'm a doctor!"
After saying that, he squatted down, held Shen Li's wrist, and felt her pulse.
"Her injury is not serious, but she has been poisoned! The poison must be removed quickly. If the poison invades her heart veins, her life will be in danger!"
After Murong Chu finished speaking, he took out a pill from a white porcelain bottle on his body and said, "This is an antidote pill. It can temporarily suppress the poison in her body!"
Jiaoyue looked at the medicine in his hand and hesitated. She didn't take it. The man in front of her had an unknown origin. Maybe he was another person who wanted to harm her young mistress!
But now her young mistress was bleeding and unconscious. According to what this man said, her life might be in danger.
Should she take the medicine or not?
Murong Chu seemed to understand Jiaoyue's thoughts and wasn't angry. "I'm a doctor from Ji'an Hall! You can rest assured!"
After hearing about Ji'an Hall, Jiaoyue felt much more at ease. She gritted her teeth, put aside her doubts, took the pill, and fed it to Shen Li.
"How about it? Has my sachet been found, my dear?" At this moment, an angry female voice sounded. The person who came was Princess Heyuan, who had lost her sachet on the street.
She came striding over angrily, followed by Prince Xiao Hanzhi of the Fourth Mansion with a solemn face, Prince Xiao Jinnan of the Seventh Mansion who always greeted people with a smiling face, and Prince Xiao Luochi of the Tenth Mansion with a cold aura.
The guard who had just injured Shen Li knelt down with his head lowered and replied, "Your subordinate is incompetent and hasn't found the princess's sachet!"
Princess Heyuan flung her sleeves and roared angrily, "Wang Ze, you're increasingly disappointing me! You can't even catch a mere petty thief! You're all useless!"
The guard named Wang Ze lowered his head resignedly and didn't dare to argue. Only his fingers gripping the knife turned white due to excessive force, showing his master's unwillingness.
"Aren't you Jiaoyue? Why are you crying?"
Xiao Jinnan looked at Jiaoyue kneeling on the ground with a smiling face. He had a bit of an impression of this bold maid because he had beaten Chunya in anger because of Jiaoyue last time.
As for Shen Li in Jiaoyue's arms, she wasn't noticed by everyone because of Jiaoyue's block.
Jiaoyue wiped her face embarrassedly. "In reply to Your Highness the Seventh Prince, my young mistress and I went out to enjoy the lanterns today. Unexpectedly, this guard suddenly attacked and injured my young mistress! Please seek justice for our Shen Mansion, Your Highness the Seventh Prince. My master and the eldest young master will surely reward you handsomely in the future!"
Jiaoyue glared angrily at Wang Ze who was still kneeling on the ground. She knew that Shen Junming and the second branch of the family were unreliable and wouldn't seek justice for her young mistress.
She could only mention her young mistress's father and elder brother, hoping that the princes and the princess would take them into account and not think that her young mistress was easy to bully.
"You're talking nonsense. It was clearly she who suddenly rushed out of the crowd and threw herself under my knife! And if it weren't for her causing trouble just now, the thief would have been caught by now! I haven't blamed you for letting the thief go, but you're actually accusing me. Do you think there's no one in our princess's mansion?"
"You... You're slandering me!"
Jiaoyue didn't expect that Wang Ze would be such a person who would shift the blame onto others. She was so angry that she couldn't say a word.
Princess Heyuan looked at Shen Li lying on the ground with a pale face. She couldn't hide her joy. This woman had come forward on her own this time. Her subordinate had injured someone without knowing, so it had nothing to do with her.
Murong Chu, who had been silent all this time, said at this moment, "This person's condition is serious and needs urgent treatment! My medical clinic is just in front. Please move the patient there so that I can treat her."
Jiaoyue was greatly shocked. But since she couldn't move Shen Li alone, she had to, with the help of the princess's maid, support Shen Li to Ji'an Hall.
In her sleep, Shen Li only felt extremely uneasy. She dreamed of the scenes before her death in her previous life, including Shen Miao's proud smiling face, Xiao Hanzhi's angry face scolding her, and the tragic faces of the people in the Shen family.
"Dad! Mom! Brother! I'm sorry! I'm sorry! Ah!"
Startled, Shen Li opened her eyes and saw Jiaoyue's worried face!
"Miss! It's okay! Don't worry! Your wounds have all been bandaged!"
Shen Li looked up at the strange bed curtains and furniture furnishings and asked puzzledly, "Jiaoyue, where are we?"
"Miss, we're in the backyard of Ji'an Hall Medical Clinic!"
Seeing that Shen Li wanted to get up, Jiaoyue quickly helped her up and said, "Miss! Don't move around! Doctor Murong has instructed that you need to take good care of the wound on your shoulder!"
Before Shen Li could ask, Jiaoyue told her everything that had happened after she passed out in detail. "I really didn't expect that the guard was so vicious that he even coated his knife with poison. If it weren't for Miss's good fortune and meeting Doctor Murong, the poison might have flared up on the spot. The consequences would have been unimaginable!"
After hearing this, Shen Li had a cold look on her face and didn't say a word. But her mind was turning a thousand times.
Shen Miao and Wang Ze must be involved. She just didn't know if Princess Heyuan was involved in this matter? And what role did Xiao Hanzhi play?
Supporting herself with her hands, Shen Li sat up straight.
But in the next moment, she froze. Her internal energy had recovered?!
Uncertain, she circulated her true qi through her body again. Sure enough, she found that the true qi in her dantian was abundant, and her martial arts had returned to its previous state!
"Jiaoyue, my martial arts have recovered!"
"Miss! Really! That's great! Now we can seek revenge on those people. We don't have to look at their faces anymore!"